Starter Culture
Co-Evolutionary Culturing
Welcome to our co-evolutionary pot of fermentation and composting, ritual and wonder! We want to have the largest conversations possible with you, at the crossroads of deep time, the future and the now. We invite you into this space for consciousness shifting spells to compost power-over culture from the inside out. We are leaning in to the edge of this present-time rupture that is the 6th mass extinction, and listening for the ways Earth might be dreaming through us in these times. Listening to the larger story, told by the web of the other-than-human world and thereby de-centering the human...
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Sep 1, 2025
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Episode 10: Creating Communities of Initiation 01.09.2025 1:20:48
Bill Plotkin, also known by his soul name; Impossible Dreamer and I Sara McFarland, also known as Hologram Heart, speak about these times of crisis as personal and species wide initiatory journey and how we might turn towards this beautifully crafted crisis as the dying of the old paradigm needed to descend into the depths. We also speak about what is needed to answer the call. Impossible shares h...
Episode 9: Opening the door: activism meets shamanism 04.08.2025 1:05:09
Manda Scott (I’m with Audrey Tang on pronouns: post-gender feels pretty good. She uses - */* which means ‘any entry accepted' in computer code, but if we have to nail it down then she/her is fine.) Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott trained as a veterinary surgeon, but is now an award-winning novelist, host of the international chart-topping ‘Accidental Gods’ podcast, co-creator of the...
Episode 8: The personal embedded within the collective 22.06.2025 57:03
Holding the responsibility of healing through the personal and the collective Charla and I explore the layers of the personal and the collective and how we move through the "pearl necklace" of karma, which is the way we respond habitually through the lenses of trauma, ancestral gift, cultural worldview. We explore together what it means to belong, how we feel and deal with anger and where its expr...
Episode 7: Summoning the Guardians of these Times 17.04.2025 46:57
Alicia and I speak about the intuitive, consciousness shifting jump of evolution in corn and these times. We speak about protection that is wise and the protective strategies that underpin modernity's violence. We listen in to who might guide us as we find our way through the "jump" that we now find ourselves in, between the old paradigm and the not-yet-born, the transformational space between wha...
Episode 6: Decolonizing at Depth 21.03.2025 46:41
My guest is Shaleah Dawnyel, founder of the School of Unlearning Berlin. We speak together in a brave space about what it is to be a portal person, the necessity of speaking about things that our very presence embodies which are often confrontative for folks. We talk about leaning in to the discomfort of this way of being that opens up both the heart and mind for what is possible beyond binaries a...
Episode 5: What we understand of Power 16.04.2024 53:40
Greetings! In this episode, we speak of what we mean when we use the word power, and what we mean when we say power-over culture. We speak of composting power-over culture and how one might do that through inner-led change. It is a vulnerable and tender conversation that reveals our own experience and grappling, healing and transformation as we ourselves compost the shadows and wounds of power-ove...
Episode 4 - Tending the relational culture of Starter Culture 19.03.2024 40:59
Join us, Claire Milne and Sara McFarland, as we tend the heart of Starter Culture and share what has brought us here and why each of us are passionate about what brings us to this work, the inner-led transformation of power-over culture into relational culture. With music by Laura Brady Strong Ones from the album Stitch and Ocean Website: http://www.wren-music.com
Episode 3 - Eco- Belonging Awakening to our place in Earth Community Part 2 04.07.2023 1:28:14
Description The second part of our Eco-Awakening conversation of belonging to Earth Community, with Bell Selkie Lovelock and Sara McFarland. In this episode, you’ll find an experiential invitation to deepen into your senses and encounter the wild others within and without. We speak about how to Eco-Awaken, how to experience ourselves as Earth and how to continue the practice of it in our daily l...
Eco-Belonging - awakening to our place in Earth Community 19.04.2023 49:18
Bell Selkie Lovelock and myself, Sara McFarland, speak about Eco-Awakening, which is the psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual remembering of the fact that we each are a part of Earth and that all beings are our Kith, in reciprocal relatedness. Come along with us for an imaginal journey through poetry, song and stories into the heart of belonging to Earth Community.
Introducing Starter Culture 03.03.2023 1:03:12
Welcome to our first podcast, in which we dive into the heart of Starter Culture and all the ways in which we expand consciousness beyond the power-over culture into human wholeness and the other-than-human. We talk about the necessary death of the modern paradigm and the grief and fear that brings with it, the ways we might decolonize at depth and at scale, and the necessity of inner work for out...
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